Masculine Cards

This is the second posting today so be sure to check out the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Card.

I'm still working at filling a basket with completed masculine cards. Men's cards always seem more difficult to design, but I am determined to have a decent selection of cards to choose from when I need one! No more last minute rushing to create a masculine card. This card is for the Card Patterns Challenge.

This card is an enlargement of the bookmark that I made last week. Stamps from Flourishes, embossing plate from PTI and papers from stash and Paper Studio.

This is the sketch that I used to create this card. 

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

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It's time once again for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge. This weeks challenge is 'Country Comfort'...anything inspired by country living...farm theme, gardening, country patterns (calico, gingham, plaid), quilts, wildflowers...whatever you interpret as county comfort.

This card was made with the Flourishes "Cherries and Peaches" stamp set, papers are from an October Afternoon pad and the embossing folder is from Sizzix. The image was colored with Copic markers and Glossy Accents were applied to the cherries. I used this fantastic sketch designed by Melissa at Tuesday Morning Sketches

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There is still plenty of time to play along with both of these challenges, so grab some papers, visit both sites and be prepared to be inspired by the beautiful DT creations. Looking forward to seeing what you create.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Beautiful Things

Welcome to another great Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge. This week our sponsor is the Digi Doodle Shop.  I hope that you'll grab some papers and play along with this week's sketch. I'd love to see your creations.

I simply adore this sketch by Melissa.....Thanks Melissa! The sentiment on this card is one of my favorites. It is from 'The Artful Stamper'.  I love this sentiment so much that I decided to use on the front of my card.  The large double layered butterfly uses two Cheery Lynn dies. The narrow vertical butterflies are Memory Box and three of the little butterflies that were cut out were used on the bottom left hand corner of the card. The edging is from a Fiskar punch, the script stamp is from Hampton arts, oval from Nestability and the pearls are from Michaels.

Here is Melissa's fantastic sketch.

Please stop by TMS and leave a little comment 'love' for the other members of the DT. Click on their names above their cards and it will take you directly to their site.

Back to creating more 'butterfly' cards in my Butterfly Garden.

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This week Mona is hosting the Timeless Tuesday Challenge at Flourishes. The challenge is to create a corner bookmark using Flourishes images. Since I am trying to concentrate on 'masculine' cards, I though it only fitting that I should make a 'masculine' bookmark. If you are expecting lace, frills and flowers you won't see it in this bookmark. I tried to keep the layers to a minimum so that the bookmark could be used (my DH is an avid book reader!) on a page corner without  indenting the surrounding pages.

The wood embossing was done with a PTI embossing plate, I distressed the edges with Vintage Photo and the coloring was added using various dye inks on a piece of Cut 'n Dry. The rope was stamped then fussy cut
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The opposite side was also embossed with the PTI embossing plate. A little early for Father's Day but, better than rushing at the last minute. I think I'll make a few more of these for my 'men's basket'.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Winning Cupcake Card

*****Scroll down for the Paper Players Masculine CAS Challenge*****

Last month I submitted a card to the Cupcake Craftroom challenge. My card was chosen as one of the winners and Mandy asked me to GD a card for her. What a wonderful honor to be able to design with these wonderful papers. This is the winning card from January.

I really enjoy 'paper folding' and most of these techniques require double sided papers (not CS).  Since it is difficult to find double sided papers, Mandy has the perfect solution...print your own! You can choose the colors and the designs and you'll never run out at 2 AM because you can just print more. These papers are from the Charlotte Designer Collection. Aren't they beautiful?


The challenge this month at the Cupcake Craftroom is "new beginnings".  Feel free to interpret this as you'd like - new baby, new home, new job, wedding engagement, you decide...What will your New Beginnings be?  The challenge is open till February 29, so there is still lots of time to enter a card.  Won't you join me and tell me about your "new beginnings"?

My "new beginnings" for this year is to make more masculine cards. I have baskets of completed female cards but when I need a card for a man, I have to make one. Hopefully by the end of the year I will have a "men's basket" of completed cards.

I decided to do paper folding on these cards and used "Menswear" Collection to make my cards. I hope you enjoy my new additions to my "men's basket".

I layered four different papers from the "Menswear" collection on this card and used double sided paper to create the mini envelope. The HB sentiment was embossed with gold embossing powder but much to my dismay...it wasn't legible so I simply highlighted areas of the sentiment with a white gel pen.

This Iris Folded card was also made with papers from the "Menswear" Collection.  An Exacto knife was used to create the waves and seagulls. If you look closely you will see different papers from the ones used on HB card.  There are many more designs that I didn't use on either of these two cards. You can see the whole collection HERE.  While looking at these lovely coordinated papers...browse a bit and see the other great paper collections. I am submitting this card to the Paper Players Masculine CAS challenge.

Thanks, Mandy for the great opportunity to make cards for my blogging friends across the pond! I  enjoyed working with these wonderfully designed papers.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Pixie Dust Cupcake

Ready for a 'yummy' card? This weeks image is from Pixie Dust Studio. It is appropriately called 'Lil Miss Cupcake'. The sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches was used to design this card.

The DP was in the bottom of the scraps basket. The brown paper has 'chocolate' written all over it, so I thought it was only fitting to have a 'chocolate' cupcake. The image was colored with Prisma Colored pencils and blended with Gamsol. I had some 'cupcake' ribbon from Michaels but unfortunately I didn't have any 'cupcake' embellishments. I stamped a Heidi Grace 'cupcake' stamp on some 'Shrinky Dink', colored it with Prisma Colored pencils, cut out a circle with my Nesties, applied heat with my heat gun and then watched the circle shrink...Wa La! instant embellishments. These lil' cupcakes and the rhinestone cherries were placed on top of a small punched doily from MS. The sentiment is from Inky Antics.

This is the fantastic sketch that was used to design this card.

Why don't you play along with this sketch. Please visit the TMS site for some great inspiration from the DT.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Black & White & Hot Pink

I'm back with another black and white card....guess this is a very popular combo this spring. The challenge at Play Date Cafe is black and white with a SPLASH of HOT PINK. What a fun color combo!

I tried to keep my SPLASH to a minimal amount. To create the background I started with black CS, then used white embossing powder on the Versamark stamped image. The stamp is from Hero Arts. The felt flower was made with dies from Sizzix and PTI. The felt zig zag is also from a PTI die. The pearl brad is from Eyelet Outlet and the edge border punch is from Martha Stewart.

This is the lovely inspirational photo that was used to design my card.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Lots of Dies!

This is my second posting today....I am a NASCAR fan and qualifying for next weeks Daytona 500 starts at 1:00 PM (EST) so I am rushing so that I can sit and enjoy the beginning of the 2012 NASCAR season.

The great challenge at the Card Crafters Circle is to use 'die cuts' in our creation. Since I'm addicted to and collect 'die cuts' this is the perfect opportunity to use them.  This was a fun challenge...the hard part was deciding which 'die cuts' to use. I managed to use 8 different 'die cuts' in this card. YEAH

The die cut behind the image is from Xyron, the butterflies are from C.C. Designs, rolled flowers are MFT, foliage and flourish are Sizzix everything else is from Spellbinders. The image (Repeat Impressions) was stamped twice and colored with Copic markers. A few of the flowers were fussy cut and adhered with foam tape for added dimension. The dps are from a Paper Studio pad and ribbon and pearls are from Hobby Lobby.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden (after NASCAR qualifying).

Black & White & Splash!

The great challenge at Our Creative Corner this week is to create a black and white card with  a 'splash' of color.

The embossing folder is from Cuttlebug, dies are from Spellbinders and Sizzix. The red paper was sprayed with a gold mist before embossing and cutting. Stickles were used to highlight the flower and the leaves. 

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Fuschias

This lovely 'Fuschias' stamp just arrived in the mail so of course I had to ink it up. The challenge for Timeless Tuesdays at Flourishes is to make a card using RED. Of all the colors in the rainbow my least favorite is RED. I was so happy to use this new stamp that I put RED into my card! Many Fuschias are red and the Hummingbirds love them! I had one of these plants last summer and it was so great to see Himmingbirds flitting around these flowers. I don't think my flowers will attract any Hummingbirds, but they definately bring back fond summer memories.

The image was colored with Copic markers, the edger and oval are from Nestabilities and embossing folders are from Sizzix and Cuttlebug. I think that covers most of the companies!(wink) :-) The pearls are from Want2Scrap and were colored with a Copic.